Voelz

Dr. Jim Voelz has come up a few times at Genesis and in other conversations I've had with those in the Denver area who read my blog. He's a Greek professor at Concordia Seminary in Seward and I think his brain power was once summed up by Saint who borrowed his book on Biblical interpretation and tried to read it.

The book, which is titled, "What Does this Mean?" is casually known among Seminary students as, "What the hell does this book mean?" Saint agreed and I proceeded to tell a story about a conversation I had with Voelz one day where he brought up a point in his book, I expanded on the point, and he looked at me with a bit of shock before saying, "I've never had a student pick that up before!" Saint followed with, "See, that's how smart Voelz is, Joe brags about being able to understand him."

Anyway, now everybody has a chance to understand Voelz on the subject of Biblical interpretation in a new series on iTunesU (click here to download). In the first session Voelz basically lays out all of the issues we face when trying to interpret the Bible and then follows up with four more weeks on a strategy for how to read and understand God's Word.

Obviously if you read my blog you know that, along with vocation, interpretation is a soapbox of mine so I encourage all to download the series and learn from the master.